It's nice to see such an in-depth process from you regarding markers, John. I use markers fairly often, and I still enjoy the process even though my shaky, impatient hands are not the best at it. I sympathize with the struggle to find just the right color for a character.

Have you tried white gouache to highlight, John? It's way easier than white-out and doesn't come out all globby and you don't have to worry about it yellowing over time. You can ink over it, too! Dunno if you can color over it with markers, though.

As someone who inks I know whiteout is entirely useless. If you need the paper to be really white and a mistake unnoticable then even the white paper whiteout pens are better. The ones that just basically put a thin sticker of white, whatever paper on your paper.

Depending on how white your paper is of course, this may or may not be a good idea.

But even gouache can look horrible if your paper is super white and you are working in just black and white. As gouache will leave a bump or texture on the paper.

But if you don't care or it is for scan purposes, or you have some color on there, or whatever, you can try that for the eye highlights. I put a little dip of it on the backend ofa brush and just dab it on. There is probably a smarter way of doing it.

What Markers do you use? I like working with ink alot, But I tend to run into the problem of a limited pallet with the particular pens I use. I've just never really experimented with markers & these look fantastic & appear to have a broad pallet.

And look what I found! Seems as though Ren isn't too far off from Peter Lorre after all! How come they never implemented this aspect of him when they drew him for the Warner Bros. cartoons? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xuw-XKP1sI